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...British paper last week, Posh says 75 rented silver goblets disappeared after the nuptials. Replacing stolen goods was not a cost the couple figured into their $800,000 party, so the newlywed made a public appeal: "If anyone has them, please give them back. You can keep the velvet napkin rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...feel fine. No sweaty palms, no tingling head; I can finally exhale. Along with some 25 million other Americans, I'm usually deathly afraid of airplanes. A bounce here, a FASTEN SEAT BELT light there, and I'm ready to start penning my will on a crumpled cocktail napkin. But I'm sick of being scared. So before boarding my last flight, I took a crash course in virtual-reality exposure therapy--a high-tech technique that is supposed to help people like me overcome our fear of flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virtually Fearless | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Still, anyone with a pencil and a napkin can calculate that a lot more money has poured out of DreamWorks than has flowed in. It's what you'd expect with a start-up, but as long as that's so, speculation will continue as to whether the company can exist in its present configuration. An insider at DreamWorks says change seems to be in the air. "At this point, the shoe hasn't dropped," the executive says, "but there is a shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Spielberg | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...things that irritated me are probably not found as much in the upperclass dining halls," she admits. First-years, however, were prone to "stupid immature things like not bussing your own plate," Rodriguez says. "We would find cake in the napkin dispensers...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DINING: BEHIND THE LINES | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Opie would draw up plans on a napkin in the Mueller lunchroom and hand them to a buddy who knew how to draw blueprints. "We wanted a place big enough so that if my mother or Rhonda's ever needed, they could move in with us," says Opie. The house took five years to plan and nine months to build, but to sit in it with them now, to hear them talk about it, you wouldn't know they moved in 2 1/2 years ago. It looks new, feels new. And they look as though they haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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